Aerodynamic forces and vortical structures in flapping butterfly's forward flight

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Yokoyama, Naoto ^a   Senda, Kei ^a   Iima, Makoto ^b   Hirai, Norio ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FREE FLIGHT; RIGID WINGS; VORTICITY; WAKES;

AERODYNAMIC FORCES; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FORWARD FLIGHT; JOINT ANGLE; JOINT MOTION; PERIODIC FUNCTION; RIGID BODY; VORTICAL STRUCTURES; WAKE STRUCTURES;

FLIGHT SIMULATORS;

EID: 84874715024     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4790882     Document Type: Article

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